A Silent Voice

Chapter Four- Night On The Beach

            When the moon was high in the sky I quietly snuck out of the house and made my way down the stairs to the beach at the bottom of the hill. I go close to the water and sit down while looking out onto the calm dark ocean. I glanced behind me when I started hearing footsteps and I see Isaki walking towards me in a white tank top and black shorts with white flip flops. She sits next to me with her notepad and pen and starts writing. I look over at what she's writing and she hides it from me and pushes my head back softly. She shows me when she finishes writing and it said 'Hi, call me Saki.' I nod, "Hey Saki, you could call me Rui." I said. Saki blushed and turned to write on her notepad. I looked up at the moon for a moment until she turned the notepad to me and looked away still blushing. The notepad said 'Thank you for calling me that.' I smiled and grabbed the notepad, I started drawing on it as Saki watched. When I finished I handed it back to her and stood up, I started walking to the tree on the hill near my house. When Saki looked at the notepad she saw a drawing of her just not colored in, she blushed and stood up. She ended up following me as I sat down against the tree and she sat next to me. "You could go inside if you want, it's getting kinda late anyways." I said seeing her looking at the drawing I made. She shook her head while smiling at the drawing.

            Every night after that for the next week we would always meet on that beach. We started getting close to each other day by day. Eventually she ended up teaching me some sign language even though I was never good at it. I would usually draw something in her notepad once a day for her, each time something different. She told me about this small cave near some rocks on the beach one time, I never knew about that even though I used to run up and down the beach finding all sorts of things. She told me that you had to go into the water in order to get there though. When we was going to go to the cave spot I realized she was a bit too short and I carried her on my shoulders above the water. We made it to the small cave place and there was hanging lights inside, along with a small table, a chair, and even pillows. 

            The following night I told her to go to the small cave and take another chair there while I go grab some food. When I get to the small cave I see her sitting there looking through all the drawings I did for her. I sit in the chair on the other side of the small table and put the bag of food and such down. I take out two already heated instant noodles and some drinks, I hand her one of the ramens and a drink while I begin eating mine. "I didnt know what kind of drink you'd like so I just got you apple juice." I said. She didn't eat the ramen but instead started drinking the juice. "Do you not like ramen? I could go get something else if you want?" I asked. I got up to go back to the store and I felt a tug on my hoodie sleeve, I turned around and she's looking up at me. "What's wrong?" I asked. She had the notepad next to her open to a page that said 'don't go I want you here with me.' And she hugged me and held onto me. I sat back down and held her in my arms while she sat on top of me. Out of the corner of my eye I catch shouko looking from the water at us. When I looked in her direction she left, I decided not to say anything to Saki and just held her until we went inside. Our night ended with a cuddle session and possibly some future trouble.